The express industry enjoys a sound development prospect as a whole, which will stimulate the development of the express material (including waybill, packing list envelope, and destructive plastic bag) industry as the upstream market in terms of the demand. In 2013, China express waybill market was sized at 9.2 billion pieces, of which, sticker waybill increased by 63% year-on-year to 7.5 billion pieces, while non-sticker waybill grew by 55% year-on-year to 1.7 billion pieces; in the meantime, China express packing list envelope market scale reached 3.14 billion pieces, up 53.3% year-on-year. Of them, 50% were exported to four leading express companies across the globe; in 2013, the scale of China express destructive plastic bag market jumped by 71% year-on-year to 5.3 billion pieces.

However, Chinese express material enterprises have weakness in the following aspects: small scale, sole business mode, dispersed operation, low degree of industrial concentration. In Chinese express waybill market, the combined market share of the top 10 industrial players in 2013 posted 45%. Among the top 10 in the ranking, Zhuhai Shenglong Barcode Technology, the industrial leader, took up only 9.87%. In express destructive plastic bag market, the combined market share of the top 10 industrial players was no more than 34.5%., and not a single firm can hold a market share of 10%. In particular, Zhongshan Jingcheng Plastic Products came to the first place in terms of market share, with the figure no more than 7.4%.

In conclusion, promoting M&A among express material enterprises, making powerful industrial players bigger and stronger, and further improving industrial concentration become the general trend for the express material industry in the future.